A university in the French city of Lyon was evacuated on Thursday morning when a large fire broke out on the roof after a reported gas bottle explosion, leaving three people with minor injuries, according to Euronews.com.

Prince Theatre Heritage Stay in collaboration with the French Embassy will turn its lobby into a mini cinema for the “French Weekend Movie Club” and screening two popular movies with English subtitles on the last weekend of the month through February.

EVEN THOUGH it faces security allegations in several developed markets, Chinese technology major Huawei said that its global operations remain stable, with businesses in Germany running normally and its involvement in 5G construction by French telecom operators remaining active.

A man who shot dead five people and wounded 11 others at a famed Christmas market in the eastern French city of Strasbourg had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group in a video, a judicial source said Saturday.

Three days from Christmas, French "yellow vests" turned out in small numbers for a sixth Saturday of protests in cities and border points as a fatal road accident brought the death toll to 10 since the movement began last month.